{"id":48123,"date":"2021-09-11T20:07:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T14:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=48123"},"modified":"2021-09-11T20:07:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T14:37:01","slug":"taliban-let-links-will-create-serious-militancy-issues-in-kashmir-us-congressman-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=48123","title":{"rendered":"Taliban-LeT links will create serious militancy issues in Kashmir: US Congressman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Amid concerns over possible fallout of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in Jammu and Kashmir, US Congressman Michael Waltz has said the insurgent group&#8217;s links to Lashkar-e-Taiba could create serious militancy issues in the Union Territory.<\/em><\/strong>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past several weeks, top diplomats and defense experts have raised concerns that the&nbsp;Taliban takeover of Afghanistan could impact the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir, owing to the insurgent group\u2019s close ties to Pakistan\u2019s ISI and regional militant outfits. Now, lending further credence to these apprehensions, US Congressman Michael Waltz has said a resurgent Taliban means an escalation of militancy-related violence in the Union Territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an exclusive interview with India Today TV, Michael Waltz, a Republican representing Florida\u2019s 6th Congressional District, said that with the Taliban in power in Afghanistan, \u201cthere will be Al Qaeda 3.0. The Taliban-Lashkar-e-Taiba links will create serious militancy issues in Kashmir.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Waltz, a former Green Beret who served in Afghanistan, also made the oft-repeated claim that Pakistan was tacitly supporting the hardline Islamist group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also rued the strategic losses which the US had encountered with the pullout from Afghanistan. \u201cEvacuating Bagram Airbase&#8230; US has lost a huge strategic space to China and Russia,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>With inputs from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/india\/story\/taliban-let-links-serious-terror-issues-kashmir-us-congressman-michael-waltz-1851586-2021-09-10\">India Today<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid concerns over possible fallout of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in Jammu and Kashmir, US Congressman Michael Waltz has said the insurgent group&#8217;s links to Lashkar-e-Taiba could create serious militancy issues in the Union Territory. Over the past several weeks, top diplomats and defense experts have raised concerns that the&nbsp;Taliban takeover of Afghanistan could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}